Shop tool

ABSTRACT

A shop tool of vise-like character which may or may not be secured to a supporting surface during use of the tool comprises a pair of jaws. The jaws are provided with various cutting edges and apertures and slots for reception of nails or wire for performing various work operations thereon.

United States Patent Spurgeon [4 Mar. 21, 1972 541 SHOP TOOL I 131,0509/!872 Butler ..2s4/20 825,151 7/1906 McLean. ....269/244 [72] Inventor.Will Ray Spurgeon, Ernmence, Mo. 65466 1,795,391 3/1931 7 Hansen" IIII"254,100 [22] Filed: Dec. 22, 1969 3,002,726 10/1961 Ford ..269/244 X ppNo: 886,845 3,488,046 1/1970 Quick ..269/245 X Primary Examiner-AndrewR. Juhasz [52] US. Cl. ..7/1 R, 254/100, 254/104 [51] Int. Cl.... ..B25il/00, B66f 15/00 [57] ABSTRACT [58] Field of Search ..269/244, 245, 246;7/1 D; A p tool of viseJike character which y or y not be secured to asupporting surface durlng use of the tool com- [56] Reerences Citedprises a pair of jaws. The jaws are provided with various UNITED STATESPATENTS Patterson "254} l 00 cutting edges and apertures and slots forreception of nails or wire for performing various work operationsthereon,

2 Claims, 12 Drawing Figures BRIEF SUMMARY OF INVENTION The object ofthe present invention is to provide a small compound compact tool foruse as a vise, clamp, metal cutter, nail puller and as a midget jack.This device can be made in size as small as 2% inches in width and 8%inches in length and is easy to handle and made of a good grade of toolsteel. One of the main objects of this invention is to make one tooluseful for a variety of purposes.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF VIEWS OF DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view ofthe device showing a fixed jaw mounted on a bracket with the slide rodsvertical.

FIG. 2 is a view of the face of said fixed jaw on the ends of said sliderods.

FIG. 3 shows another view of the fixed jaw minus the said slide rods.

FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of the movable jaw minus said slide rodsand the internally threaded cylinder.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the face and body of the movable jawminus the said slide rods and the internally threaded cylinder.

FIG. 6 is a view of the threaded cylinder.

FIG. 7 is a view of the screw shaft assembled to the plate andthreadedly engaged with the cylinder.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the device being used as a vise.

FIG. 9 is a view of the device being used as a nail puller.

FIG. 10 is a view of the device being used for tightening wire or as ahoist.

FIG. 11 shows how bending, kinking or tightening wire is performed withthe device.

FIG. 12 is a view of the bracket.

The device shown in FIG. 1 comprises rods 31 with L- shaped jaw 12 fixedby welding to rods 31 at 29. The jaw 12 comprises an upright leg portion14 with a beveled portion 27 terminating in a cutting edge 23. Heelportion 28 is rounded at the junction of legs 14 and 16. Leg portion 16terminates in a beveled portion 18 with slots 19, 20 provided thereinwhich slots may be of different width. Said slots function as nailpullers as noted in FIG. 8 wherein 57 is a nail. The central portion ofleg 16 is deeply slotted at 21 and is functional as shown in FIGS. 8-11wherein 63 is a nail to be pulled, 62 is a wire to be bent and 61 is awire to be used as a hoist or to be stretched. Elements 58 and 59 mayalso be held as shown in FIG. 8.

Slidably mounted on rods 31 through apertures 30 is the movable jawwhich is substantially U-shaped as noted in FIG. 1. One leg 13 of thejaw 15 terminates in a beveled portion 17', 18. The leg 13 ofjaw 15 isprovided with a deep slot 22 similar to slot 21 and functions as shownin FIGS. 8-11. Opposite the beveled portion 17, 18 an upright portion 48of jaw 15 provides a shearing edge 24 which coacts with cutting edge 23,as noted in FIG. 8, to cut a rod 60. Adjacent the intersection of 48 andleg 13 is a pair of bores 25 for reception of rods 60' to be sheared bycutting edge 23. The upper portion of 48 is formed parallel to leg 13and provided with a pair of bores 30 for slidable reception of the rods31.

Supported on movable jaw 15 is an internally threaded cylinder 35, asclearly shown in FIG. 1. which extends through bores 36 in the parallelportions of the jaw 15.

A plate member 46 having bores 47 therein for reception of the ends ofrods 31 is fastened to said rods by nuts 32. The plate member has a bore40 for reception of the unthreaded portion of a shaft provided withscrew threads 33 which are in engagement with cylinder 35. One end ofthe shaft is provided with a rounded end portion 34 which engages thefixed jaw 12. The other end of the shaft is provided with a polygonaldriving head portion 41. The head portion 41 is provided with atransverse bore 42 for the reception of a handle means 43 having anenlarged head 44 on one end and a nut 45 threaded on the other endthereof for removal of the handle means from the head portion.

A nut 37 with rounded shoulders 38 is threaded to shaft portion 33 onthe underside of plate member 46 and locked to shaft portion 33 by meansof stud 39. Nut 37 acts as a stop means to limit counterclockwiserotation of shaft 33, thus limiting the opening of jaws l5, 12.

A bracket 53 is provided for supporting the device in a horizontalposition as noted in FIG. 1. The bracket is generally U-shaped in crosssection with mounting holes 56 for holding the surface 53 on a planarsupport. The bracket is also provided with threaded bores 54 forreception of screws 51 with threaded shanks 52. The head portion of 51engages in a counterbore in slot 49 in the fixed leg 16 for mounting thedevice on the bracket.

Movable jaw 15 is also provided with slots 49 for the reception of boltsif it is desirable to mount the device on the bracket 53 for a differentorientation of the device.

Having thus described the invention, I claim:

1. In a device, the combination of a relatively fixed jaw fixedlysupporting a pair of parallel rods at one end thereof, the other ends ofsaid rods interconnected by a plate member, a relatively movable jawslidable on said rods, an internally threaded cylinder fixed to saidmovable jaw, a threaded shaft 40 journaled in said plate member andthreadedly engaging said cylinder, one end of said threaded shaftterminating in a rounded end portion engageable with said fixed jaw andthe other end provided with a turning means, a stop nut fixedly mountedon the threaded shaft and engageable with the underside of said platemember each of said jaws terminating in a beveled end portion slopingtowards each other, and the beveled end portions being provided withslots therein, the fixed jaw further provided with a transverse cuttingedge at the end opposite the beveled portion and directed towards themovable jaw and in shearing relation with the rear edge of the movablejaw, the movable jaw further provided with an aperture spaced inwardlyof a side edge of the jaw for supporting a work piece for shearingengagement with the transverse cutting edge of the fixed jaw.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 further including a bracket meansand mounting means for supporting the device in a fixed position on saidbracket means.

1. In a device, the combination of a relatively fixed jaw fixedlysupporting a pair of parallel rods at one end thereof, the other ends ofsaid rods interconnected by a plate member, a relatively movable jawslidable on said rods, an internally threaded cylinder fixed to saidmovable jaw, a threaded shaft journaled in said plate member andthreadedly engaging said cylinder, one end of said threaded shaftterminating in a rounded end portion engageable with said fixed jaw andthe other end provided with a turning means, a stop nut fixedly mountedon the threaded shaft and engageable with the underside of said platemember each of said jaws terminating in a beveled end portion slopingtowards each other, and the beveled end portions being provided withslots therein, the fixed jaw further provided with a transverse cuttingedge at the end opposite the beveled portion and directed towards themovable jaw and in shearing relation with the rear edge of the movablejaw, the movable jaw further provided with an aperture spaced inwardlyof a side edge of the jaw for supporting a work piece for shearingengagement with the transverse cutting edge of the fixed jaw.
 2. Thedevice as claimed in claim 1 further including a bracket means andmounting means for supporting the device in a fixed position on saidbracket means.